Spell checker and Late night coding..

It was a wonderful week end. Myself and Benzi were working on the spell checker for Malayalam. In April we had done lot of research on this. We did the coding for the dictionary representation in the Binary Retrieval tree (TRIE). Saturday night we did the candidate list generation coding. It is a wonderful experience to code in the late night – one laptop and two persons to code!!!. Every thing worked fine. When we finished the coding, we realized that the application can be tuned to a universal(?) spell checker. So sunday we tested it using a 3 lakh english words.. Worked fine!!. We compared the spelling options generated with aspell. Ours was giving more options since our dictionary is bigger than aspell’s. ...

May 21, 2007 · 1 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Plus meet May 2007 at Tippus Fort , Palakkad

Anivar, Praveen, Hiran, Sujith and myself reached the fort at 10.15 AM. Anivar, Praveen, Hiran and Sujith were wearing T-Shirts with Debian Logo. Riyas has reached already.Meeting started at 11 AM. Around 20 members participated in the meeting. Meeting place was FREE and OPEN as you have seen in the pictures. We sat under the tree in the form of a ring. Students from MES kuttippuram, GEC Sreekrishnapuram and GEC Thrissur participated. ...

May 8, 2007 · 2 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Free software Alternatives or replacements

What will be the impact of a Discussion on a mailing list regarding freedom concerns. See the Old thread on PLUS http://lists.sarovar.org/pipermail/plus-discuss/2007-January/000628.html & Old gnu Page http://web.archive.org/web/20060516072757/http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html If community is vigilant about Freedom lets see what happens http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html The Word “Free software Alternatives” changed with “Free software replacements”

April 4, 2007 · 1 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Debian Installer Etch Release Candidate 2 released

The Debian Installer team is proud to announce the second release candidate (RC2) of the installer for Debian GNU/Linux Etch. Unless release critical issues are discovered, this will be the version of the installer that will be included in the release of Etch. There are no real major changes in this release, but we have been able to use the time since RC1 to fix quite a few important and minor ...

March 21, 2007 · 1 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Dhvani Indian Language Text to Speech system

visit http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/Dhvani for the documentation..

March 15, 2007 · 1 min · Santhosh Thottingal

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is participating in Google Summer of Code.

Swathanthra Malayalam Computing is participating in Google Summer of Code. More details at http://fci.wikia.com/wiki/SMC/SoC/2007 Excellent opportunity for Students in kerala…. Googel summer of Code:http://code.google.com/soc/

March 13, 2007 · 1 min · Santhosh Thottingal